Nice house - I love those limestone house in TX.

You can grow all kinds of things in those nice beds, but you'll need to provide more info. what's the exposure? what are the size of the beds? You are planning to fill the beds full of soil?
The soil you use will also be a factor in what you plant. Some plants like a nice lean soil.

All that said you can grow almost all the Salvia/Sages.

Have you asked this on the Perennials forum? They're probably the best place here for plant selection, and it's an active forum as well.

Here is a link that might be useful: Perennials forum

Thank you for the suggestions.

I have full sun all blazing day in that bed. The soil that I have is probably more acid and clay mix. I have nothing but Pines, some cedars and oaks, but nothing in the front yard.

My bed is probably around 4x14 total.

I also have a thread in the Texas gardens section.

Thank you for all the advise I have received so far.

I would suggest you fill your beds with shrubs. I would do a mix of different colors - some green like dwarf mugo pine perhaps, some yellow and/or red barberry. Throw in a couple of shrub roses if you like. Fill in with bulbine in the front and a tall canna perhaps for height. There are of course, a million things you could do, but I would let the shrubs fill in the main areas, and put perennials just here and there, as they will die down in the winter. Even though you have a short winter season, I'm sure you don't want to look at an empty bed all winter long.

Maybe in the interior bed put some rosemary. They will be evergreen and a nice background for some of the deciduous shrubs. Plus it smells nice.

Look around your neighborhood and see what plants you like. Buy them and move them around in their pots until it looks nice to you before you plant. Remember to go by the mature size to give them plenty of room.

If you'd like a different look you could go with an Agave/Cactus garden. There are so many unbelievably beautiful plants in that group.

Agave will give you the architecture and the cacti bloom beautifully. Plus you can grow woody long blooming things like scutaleria (scullcaps) and Texas sage with them.
If you like this idea make sure you add some pea gravel and very coarse sand into your soil for sharp drainage.
If you haven't already been to the Lady Bird Johnson wildflower center in Austin, you should make the trip - it's inspirational!
Keep in touch I'd love to see what you do with this space.